Rain clouds represent angry people. Paul was saying how the clouds were looking for the tangerine tree's but they can't get find them, so they get angry and dump rain everywhere.
The houses represent English rulers. I think this represents living in royalty.
Page 31-Personification- "They can't find them, they get mad, and start thundering and lightning and dumping the rain on us."
This shows personification by giving inanimate objects (clouds), human characteristics (being mad).
Page 39-Simile- "It's a short, violent sound, like some big guys holding up some little guy and punching him over and over in the stomach."
This shows a simile because Paul is comparing Erik kicking a football to a kid getting beat up.
Page 43-Simile- " But if twenty more houses decided to put up different styles of mailboxes, it'd start to look like a shantytown around here."
It's also hyperbole, though; a "shantytown" is literally made of shacks, and these huge houses are anything but that!
This is a simile because Mrs. Fisher is comparing Lake Windsor Downs to a shantytown.
Page 45-Personification- "The lightning. It knows that spot."
This is personification because Paul is giving an inanimate object (lighting), a human characteristic (the ability to know things).
Page 54-Metaphor- "Soccer practice was a colossal drag."
Paul was stating that soccer practice actually was a colossal drag, and a metaphor says one things is another thing.
Yes, but a "drag" is just a slang word for something being a "bore" or a downer.
-Delaney
(Erik kicking a football, page 39)
Memory of Mike Costello, symbolized in the form of a tree ( Page 253-254 [When it's planted])~ Adam
Link: Laurel Oak
The houses represent English rulers. I think this represents living in royalty.
Page 31-Personification- "They can't find them, they get mad, and start thundering and lightning and dumping the rain on us."
This shows personification by giving inanimate objects (clouds), human characteristics (being mad).
Page 39-Simile- "It's a short, violent sound, like some big guys holding up some little guy and punching him over and over in the stomach."
This shows a simile because Paul is comparing Erik kicking a football to a kid getting beat up.
Page 43-Simile- " But if twenty more houses decided to put up different styles of mailboxes, it'd start to look like a shantytown around here."
It's also hyperbole, though; a "shantytown" is literally made of shacks, and these huge houses are anything but that!
This is a simile because Mrs. Fisher is comparing Lake Windsor Downs to a shantytown.
Page 45-Personification- "The lightning. It knows that spot."
This is personification because Paul is giving an inanimate object (lighting), a human characteristic (the ability to know things).
Page 54-Metaphor- "Soccer practice was a colossal drag."
Paul was stating that soccer practice actually was a colossal drag, and a metaphor says one things is another thing.
Yes, but a "drag" is just a slang word for something being a "bore" or a downer.-Delaney
(Erik kicking a football, page 39)
Memory of Mike Costello, symbolized in the form of a tree ( Page 253-254 [When it's planted])~ AdamLink: Laurel Oak